Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore, Ghost Stories., part 2, sentence 106
Those stories are, as a general rule, of a most ghastly nature, but there are a few into the composition of which the savage element does not enter.
Who acts: stories, savage element · What happens: be, not enter · To what, where: composition
This is a sentence of «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Ghost Stories., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stories, savage element), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 stories | det |
| 2 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rule | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rule | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rule | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 rule | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rule | det |
| 7 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rule | amod |
| 8 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nature | punct |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 nature | det |
| 12 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 13 ghastly | advmod |
| 13 | ghastly | ghastly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 nature | amod |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rule | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 are | expl |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 few | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 few | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rule | conj |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 composition | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 composition | det |
| 23 | composition | composition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 few | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 which | case |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 enter | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 element | det |
| 27 | savage | savage | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 element | amod |
| 28 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enter | nsubj |
| 29 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 enter | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 enter | advmod |
| 31 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 composition | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rule | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that stories | as a general rule and a ghastly nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | that stories not said here | the composition | few property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not enter | present · do-support | the savage element | of the composition | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of which=Initial_Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore», Project Gutenberg book 22373 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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